*UPDATE* – Animal Review Book

Against their better judgment, the good people at Bloomsbury USA have offered to make an Animal Review book.

Why they are doing this is anyone’s guess, but somehow they decided to, so there should be a book available sometime next April. The next several months will be eaten up by the process of actually writing said book, so posts will be less frequent for a bit. Just kinda FYI.

Thanks to everyone for reading Animal Review, and a special thanks to Nick Trautwein, formerly of Bloomsbury, for an epic lapse in judgment.

I’ll still get the book, but I bet the movie would be good. I’d imagine there would be some sort of Bloodsport/March Madness tournament. Obvioulsy, Great White Shark and King Cobra would get No. 1 seeds. Bullet Ant would probably be a cinderella pick. Who wins it all? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Bravo!
Let Bloomsbury put it together. You have done the (brain)work that counts. Keep doing the posts. Your work is such that you ought to spin off a Politician Review site with international and domestic divisions. You would never lack subject matter.

Congratulations, but I kind of have to agree with ed newman up there. I’m not someone who flies into a rage if a site I like isn’t updated every hour or even every day, but a new review has become something of a monumental event, which….really shouldn’t be the case. The reviews are good, but they’re not *that* good. So, again, congratulations, but I won’t be buying that book.

laraeinga, ed and Larry, why should he give it away, when people will pay for it?….when they (we) will. Dude’s a business man and a hell of funny writer, that’s called GETTING PAID. Who who amongst wouldn’t?

Ted, I don’t blame him at all for taking the opportunity to be paid for his work, which is why I offered congratulations. And hey, maybe in a year I’ll change my mind and decide to buy it after all. I guess I’ve just gone slightly off the site in the last few months because of new content being so thin on the ground.

Would those concerned about lack of updates while a book’s being written PLEASE please do us all a favor and let us know what it’s like to be perfect and enlighten the rest of us about how to do it all all the time and do it perfectly? After nearly 40 years, I *still* haven’t figured that out.

I can’t help you on advice about being perfect, but here’s an unrelated tip: when you’re composing your scathing indictment of a comment on a website, make sure you’ve read and understood the comment first so you don’t look unintelligent (because I’m certain you’re not.) I made no criticism of posts being less frequent while the book is being written, i.e., after the March 25 post, what I objected to was the infrequency of posts before, which put me off the site so I wasn’t overly excited about the book.

I appreciate that it takes time to compose entries as good as these, but I have a lot of favourite blogs that are just as funny or funnier and they manage to update more often than once or twice a month.